Quotes About Discovery

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

I had not been in love before. It was like a wheel rolling downhill.

Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.

pulse raced, and she found her

People , she used to think, do not change, they are merely revealed.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

De Maes went to see him and learned that L'Amoral himself was planning to write to Clusius, to send him a bulb of the martagon pomponii

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. MATTHEW 13:45

but were actually heroes: people who, having lost their moorings in the inauthentic world we call normal life, were now on a perilous journey to discover what the world might be like without the masks of false consciousness that the rest of us habitually wear.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

invite a person to a log cabin in the woods for a weekend. The true personality emerges every time.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Instead of finding her in the shadows, this visit would anchor something between them in rising daylight.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

It longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

But something happened to me as I got more and more involved in the Movement. It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

I have this theory that actually, after an absence you discover in that first glimpse what you really think and feel about another person. You know things you couldn't know before.